The top solo scorers in last week's newsquiz were Janet Boyle, Nick Turner and George Mann who all scored 22. Marguerite Turner scored 20, Adam Batstone and Gavin Devine 19 and Robert Rea 16. The top teams were Three Legs drinkers Peter, Stacey, Kevin, George and Les and Bruce and Sarah Hayward who both scored 22. The Rincorn Babes Lucy and Rachel, Neil and Jo Benson and The Smiths all scored 21, Jess Devonport and Nick Collins scored 20 and Maura Parsons and Alexandra 19. Here is this week's quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know your score.
Today's front pages
2. A planned strike aims to shut down what from Sunday July 23 until Friday July 28?
3. A Government move to close almost 1,007 what within three years was confirmed by the Rail Delivery Group?
4. The Parliament's Standards Committee found that Tory MP Chris Pincher groped two men at a London club and recommended he should be suspended from the Commons for how many weeks?
5. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pledged to put speaking lessons for children at the centre of plans to overhaul the education system, saying '__ is a skill that can and must be taught’. What is the missing word?
6. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was advised by his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese to stay where?
7. What was removed from an asylum centre for unaccompanied children in Kent because the Home Office wanted to make it clear it was a 'law enforcement environment' and 'not a welcome centre’?
8. What is the name of the refugee camp in the West Bank where thousands of people fled following an Israeli military operation which left dozens dead?
9. The Met Office said the UK had the hottest June on record with an average monthly temperature of what … exceeding the previous highest in 1940 and 1976 by 0.9C?
10. A woman in her 40s was arrested after an eight-year-old girl was killed in a car crash at an end-of-term tea party in a school where?
11. John Berylson, who died after his car hit a tree in Cape Cod in America, was owner and chairman of which English football club?
12. Investigators said a fire which killed a mother and her two young children in a house in Cambridge was probably started by what?
13. Thirty million people were believed to have signed up for Meta's newly launched app, pitched as a 'friendly' rival to Twitter, which is called what?
14. What 'temporary emergency measure' did Twitter introduce to address 'extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation’?
15. Research by Which? found that what, available from high street shops, was more sugary than chocolate and fizzy drinks - often having 'exceptionally high’ levels?
16. Which country banned the upcoming Barbie film over a scene featuring a map?
17. Russian security services said they raided the St Petersburg palace of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and found a cupboard full of different coloured what?
18. Wimbledon said it would no longer sell what at its shop following disruptions by Just Stop Oil protesters?
19. This month's supermoon, bigger and brighter than an ordinary full moon, is known by what name?
20. Who said 'I am just getting on with it’ after revealing she had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 61?
21. A man told Southwark Crown Court that actor Kevin Spacey grabbed him 'like a __ coming out and getting hold' in a West End theatre. What is the missing word?
22. Ford made the last ever of model of which car today (Friday) - ending its 47-year production run?
23. Ivan Dimitrov from Bristol wrote a letter of apology after he was filmed etching his and his girlfriend's name into which building?
24. Which football club named Hannah Dingley as their caretaker boss, making her the first woman to manage a professional men's team in English football?
25. TV presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly said they were 'beyond excited’ by what?
9. The Met Office said the UK had the hottest June on record with an average monthly temperature of what … exceeding the previous highest in 1940 and 1976 by 0.9C?
10. A woman in her 40s was arrested after an eight-year-old girl was killed in a car crash at an end-of-term tea party in a school where?
11. John Berylson, who died after his car hit a tree in Cape Cod in America, was owner and chairman of which English football club?
12. Investigators said a fire which killed a mother and her two young children in a house in Cambridge was probably started by what?
13. Thirty million people were believed to have signed up for Meta's newly launched app, pitched as a 'friendly' rival to Twitter, which is called what?
14. What 'temporary emergency measure' did Twitter introduce to address 'extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation’?
15. Research by Which? found that what, available from high street shops, was more sugary than chocolate and fizzy drinks - often having 'exceptionally high’ levels?
16. Which country banned the upcoming Barbie film over a scene featuring a map?
17. Russian security services said they raided the St Petersburg palace of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and found a cupboard full of different coloured what?
18. Wimbledon said it would no longer sell what at its shop following disruptions by Just Stop Oil protesters?
19. This month's supermoon, bigger and brighter than an ordinary full moon, is known by what name?
20. Who said 'I am just getting on with it’ after revealing she had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 61?
21. A man told Southwark Crown Court that actor Kevin Spacey grabbed him 'like a __ coming out and getting hold' in a West End theatre. What is the missing word?
22. Ford made the last ever of model of which car today (Friday) - ending its 47-year production run?
23. Ivan Dimitrov from Bristol wrote a letter of apology after he was filmed etching his and his girlfriend's name into which building?
24. Which football club named Hannah Dingley as their caretaker boss, making her the first woman to manage a professional men's team in English football?
25. TV presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly said they were 'beyond excited’ by what?
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